A summary of Scratchpad functionality
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The document provides an overview of the various features and functionalities available on the Scratchpad platform, which is a collaborative online environment for biodiversity data and knowledge. It describes tools for taxonomy, bibliographies, images, phylogenies, character matrices, distribution maps, specimens, multilingual support, taxon pages, usage statistics, and impact. The Scratchpad aims to bring together data, people, and science in biodiversity research.
A summary of Scratchpad functionality
- 1. Vincent S. Smith http://Scratchpads.eu A summary of Scratchpad functionality
- 2. Taxonomy Taxonomy import, management and navigation
- 3. Bibliographic data Reference manager / Endnote support for bibliographies
- 4. Images Image galleries, image upload & annotation
- 5. Phylogeny Nexus / Newick import for visualizing phylogenies
- 6. Character Matricies Molecular & morphological character matricies (discrete, morphometric and text characters)
- 7. Distribution Maps Presence absence country maps
- 8. Specimens & locations Specimen & location records (DwC)
- 9. Pages, Forums, Blogs, Newsletters Web fora with e-mail integration User blogs Static web pages Newsletters with e-mail integration
- 10. Mass Import Import from CSV text file to any content type
- 11. Administration Simple & advanced admin. AutoTag content (automatically adds structure) Private Groups Customized user profiles
- 12. Create & switch between content in any language Multilingual Support
- 13. Simple navigation menus and tools for in each site Taskguide & Content menu
- 14. Dynamically built species pages Integrating data & “publishing” in a Scratchpad Taxon Pages
- 15. Browsed through a taxonomy Integrating data & “publishing” in a Scratchpad Taxon Pages
- 16. Including 3 rd party content Integrating data & “publishing” in a Scratchpad Taxon Pages
- 17. With data curation tools Integrating data & “publishing” in a Scratchpad Taxon Pages
- 18. Listing all “authors” Integrating data & “publishing” in a Scratchpad Taxon Pages
- 19. Dated, permanent & citable Integrating data & “publishing” in a Scratchpad Taxon Pages
- 20. Control what to display Adjusting the layout Taxon Pages n.b. Taxon page tools have since been updated
- 21. Infinitely customizable Ants Bees Beetles Big-headed flies Birds Blackflies Ciliates Cockroaches Dragon Trees Dung Beetles False Buttonweed Flat worms Flies Foraminifera Fossil Insects Fungus Gnats Holometabola Leaf-miner Flies Lice Lichens of Bermuda Malvaceae Megalastrum ferns Milichiid flies Mosquitoes Mosses Nannotax fossils Nepticuloid moths Palms Pearl oysters Polychaete worms Scaleworms Sulawesi Ferns Stick insects … and many, many more Termites Triticid grasses Weevils Wood Ferns
- 22. Usage Statistics Users: 1,346 (Total activated) Users: 941 (Active and have logged in) Users: 54 (Active and logged in NHM Users) Users: 58 (Logged in, in last 7 days) Users: 135 (Logged in, in last 30 days) Sites: 124 Sites: 127 (With users logged in, in last 7 days) Sites: 142 (With users logged in, in last 30 days) Nodes / Pages: 174,128 As of Wednesday 25th August, 2009 Latest figures at http://scratchpads.eu/stats
- 23. Scratchpad impact Scratchpads address these challenges 1. Bringing data together Biodiversity studies are data rich, poorly archived & ever changing 2. Bringing people together Biodiversity researchers are few in number, fragmented & highly distributed 3. Bringing science together Biodiversity science demands a different approach to addressing BIG questions
- 24. Thanks… Ben Scott Vladimir Blagoderov Irina Brake Edward Baker Simon Rycroft Dave Roberts Kehan Harman
- 25. Questions?